BOARD01111

• Board Meeting Date: 6/3/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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been chemically treated and it provides for a
$25 fine for these offenses.

In the past four years since the Water
Pollution Control commission has been in ex-
istence, 160 domestic waste treatment plants 1
have been built, expanded or connected to
another system. During this same four-year
period 81 industrial plants have abated their '
pollution problems by providing waste treatment
facilities or connecting to an existing system.
We still have 23 domestic waste treatment facili-
ties that need correction. These are municipal
systems. We have 40 industrial systems which
need correction, all of which have been assigned
an abatement date of January I, 1972.

A couple of areas of interest yet to the
commission are the mine drainage problem, the
leachings from tailings piles, and the irriga-
tion returns flows. These are all sources of
pollution that are not yet adequately under-
stood, not yet adequately defined and on which
We are undertaking, as fast as we can get fund-
ing for it, research and investigations to find
the extent of these pollution problems.

We feel that we need to increase our sur-
veillance program. We are presently maintaining
82 river surveillance stations that are sampled
once a month. We feel that this sampling is not
often enough. Because of the inaccuracy or
inadequacy of the sampling we feel that we are
missing a great deal of pollution that isn't
detected at the time our sampling is done. We
are going to continue to stress the training of
operators of sewage treatment and water treat-
ment plants and we are going to investigate the
possible certification by the state of such
operators.

That's the substance of my report. I would
be happy to entertain any questions that anyone
might have, either from the Board or from the
audience, Mr. Chairman."

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